Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks

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Summary: Super Squats: How to waste $12.95 in seconds
Review: This book is tauted as one of the pre-eminent classics on body building and one would think that even due to it's age it must still be valuable. The first thing you have to understand is that this book comes from the IronMind company who routinely put out books more concerned with history than workouts, I know I have three of them. It is half full of common sense stories such as: if you want to get big lift lots of weights like Joe Schmoe did in 1942 and drink lots of milk. Yes, milk is 50% of the program because back then protein powders weren't mainstream, but the preface says something about a reissue of more relevance. Well sorry, drinking a gallon or more of milk a day is not good for you - news flash. The whole remaining 50% of the "secret program" revolves around one set of squats at twenty reps - yes that is the key to 30 pounds of muscle. More likely, if you drink all the milk they recommend - a whole lot of fat is going to be involved with that 30 pounds. The book is made up of a tad over 100 pages and the workout program takes up a whopping two pages. There are two workouts, both stress the whole body workout theory three times a week routine. One brilliant side note about the two routines is that one has 6 sets and the other has 18, the shorter routine of course being suggested for hard gainers? It has not nearly as much work involved yet somehow we will get better results from 6 as opposed to 18? Maybe if the reps were different but they are not, you see that's just it - not only is this book dated diet wise, it's just plain goofy in muscle building knowledge. I'll take my Muscle and Fitness monthly filled with mostly ads over this scrap book any day. The other annoying thing about this book is that it is laid out terribly with topics out of order and chapters following chapters with zero relevance. The only valuable information in this book is common sense to anyone who has lifted for a year or more but the problem is that the workout would only be useful to seasoned lifters who would already posses the elementary material this ramshackle cottage of a book is built out of.

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Summary: Ok
Review: Very good, but begin with very light weigths, then increase, I began with an empty olympic bar that weighed 20kg, then I increased it by 2Kg every week.